Jeff is on a mission. He has founded the law firm of GrantLaw, PLLC based in New York City. Jeff is committed to using his legal expertise and life experience to benefit others.
GrantLaw, PLLC offers comprehensive private general counsel services for executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals managing complex legal, financial, and personal matters. Whether clients are proactively structuring their affairs to mitigate risk, responding to regulatory inquiries, or seeking to rebuild after past legal difficulties, we provide discreet, strategic guidance to help them move forward with confidence.
We assist clients in making and executing critical business, financial, and family decisions, ensuring they have the best possible foundation for lasting success. Our work often involves risk assessment, compliance strategies, crisis management, and reputation preservation. When necessary, we also provide guidance on pardons, expungement, and clemency.
We practice in New York and on authorized federal matters, and frequently collaborate as cocounsel with local counsel, criminal defense lawyers, and other professionals throughout the country and the world. In criminal prosecution settings, we help clients navigate these issues with an eye toward the best possible outcomes in areas such as charging decisions, sentencing, restitution, and forfeiture.
To deliver holistic support, we believe that experts should be brought into the process as early as possible. To this end, we assemble, manage, coordinate, and collaborate with a network of trusted professionals, including criminal defense attorneys, tax attorneys, bankruptcy lawyers, family lawyers, civil litigators, estate and trust lawyers, accountants, private investigators, fraud examiners, mitigation specialists, medical doctors and psychiatrists, forensic psychologists, drug and alcohol interventionists, prison consultants, white collar peer and support resources, and more.
And, of course, we are honored to serve clients who seek our strategic counsel outside of crisis situations, providing trusted, lasting legal guidance tailored to their evolving needs.
Jeff is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Women’s White Collar Defense Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Palm Beach County Bar Association, and the Social Impact Entertainment Society.
In 2012, Jeff earned a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, majoring in Social Ethics. After graduating, Jeff was called to serve at an inner city church in Bridgeport, Connecticut as Associate Minister and Director of Prison Ministries. He then cofounded Progressive Prison Ministries, Inc. (Greenwich, CT), the world’s first ministry devoted to serving those navigating the white collar justice system and their families.
Since 2016, Jeff has hosted a weekly online confidential White Collar Support Group, the first in the country. The support group has helped nearly 2,000 justice impacted individuals and held its 500th weekly online meeting in January 2026.
An ordained minister, Jeff has more than three decades of experience in crisis management, business, law, reentry, addiction recovery, plus executive and religious leadership. He works frequently with people prosecuted for white collar crimes (and their families) who want to emerge from isolation and join a supportive community. In this role he helps them navigate their journey through the criminal justice system to new, ethical, productive, joyful lives on the other side of their issues.
Sometimes referred to in the press as “The Minister to Hedge Funders,” Jeff regularly uses his experience and background to guide people forward in their lives, relationships, careers, and business opportunities, and to help them avoid making the kinds of decisions that resulted in loss, suffering, and shame.
A verified Psychology Today pastoral counselor, Jeff also serves on the ministry team at St. Joseph Mission Church in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
From 2016 to 2019, Jeff served as Executive Director of Family ReEntry, Inc. (Bridgeport, CT), a 100 person criminal justice organization with offices and programs in eight Connecticut cities. Jeff is the first person in the United States formerly incarcerated for a white collar crime to be appointed Executive Director of a major criminal justice nonprofit.
Jeff has served on numerous criminal justice related boards, including the Legal Action Center (New York), Cochair of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section Parole, Probation & Reentry Committee (Washington, DC), the ABA Commission on Lawyers Assistance Programs Advisory (Chicago), Cochair of the Mayor’s Advisory Council on Reentry Affairs (Bridgeport), Family ReEntry, Community Partners in Action (formerly the Connecticut Prison Association), and Healing Communities Network (New York). He has also served on the advisory boards of Creative Projects Group (Los Angeles) and Reentry Survivors (Bridgeport).
Jeff was twice selected a Nantucket Project Scholar (2012, 2014) and was recognized by JustLeadershipUSA as one of 15 Inaugural National Leaders in Criminal Justice (2015). He was selected a Keepers of the Commons Fellow (2017) and a Keepers of the Commons Senior Fellow (2018). Jeff has been the recipient of the Elizabeth Bush Award for Volunteerism (2011), received the Bridgeport Reentry Collaborative Advocate of the Year Award (2013, 2014, 2015), and was selected the Bridgeport Reentry Collaborative Professional of the Year (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). He has also been recognized by the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence (2017) and by the Connecticut NAACP (2017), and was selected a 2019 Collegeville Institute Writing Fellow.
A Professional Member of the National Speakers Association, Jeff is a sought after keynote speaker, panelist, moderator, and guest preacher. Speaking venues have included Main Stage Presenter at The Nantucket Project, the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Conference, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Greenwich Leadership Forum, Union Theological Seminary, and Yale Divinity School, among many others.
Jeff has authored, been the subject of, or been prominently mentioned in The New Yorker, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, ABA Criminal Justice Magazine, Business Insider, Forbes, Philadelphia Inquirer, Vanity Fair, Greenwich Magazine, Law360, Inc., The Huffington Post, Institutional Investor, New York Magazine, and many others.
He authored a chapter in the book Suicide and Its Impact on the Criminal Justice System (2021), served on the Editorial Board of The Justice Imperative: How Hyper Incarceration has Hijacked the American Dream (2014), and was prominently mentioned in Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury (2021), Trusted White Collar Offenders (2021), the Teal Book of Wisdom (2022), and The Haves and the Have-Yachts (2025).
Featured podcast and radio appearances include the Rich Roll Podcast, Locked In with Ian Bick, PRETEND, Inside True Crime with Matt Cox, The JustPod (American Bar Association), White Collar Talks (ABA), The Confessional with Nadia Bolz-Weber, Nightmare Success, and many others. Jeff is editor of the widely read website at prisonist.org and hosts the White Collar Week podcast.